free Hibernate sample chapters

I have chosen to implement hibernate in my current project I am working on so I have found some free sample chapters to help me on my way.

 

If you haven't used hibernate I would recommend going thought the reference documentation supplied with hibernate as this gives you an easy tutorial to follow and gives you code which you can build on.  The sample chapters tend to look at things in a bit more detail, which might help you if you are going to be using hibernate to do more than standard database work.

 

I also found almost a books worth of sample chapters on hibernate

 

The first couple of sample chapters come from

 

Hibernate in Action
Christian Bauer and Gavin King

 

this first chapter is going through a hello world example, it is titled

Introducing and integrating Hibernate

http://www.manning-source.com/books/bauer/bauer_chp2.pdf

 

I haven't read the second sample chapter

Advanced mapping concepts

http://www.manning-source.com/books/bauer/bauer_chp6.pdf

 

there is also this book

 

Hibernate Quickly
Patrick Peak and Nick Heudecker

 

http://www.manning-source.com/books/peak/peak_ch03.pdf

 

 

http://www.manning-source.com/books/peak/peak_ch06.pdf

 

Finally

 

Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook

By James Elliott

harnessing hibernate

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hibernate/chapter/ch03.pdf